Container closure



April 7, 1936. J. M. KING 2,036,278,

CONTAINER CLOSURE Filed Sept. 50, 19:55

- Inventor LID h. MJEE' QMM$M Patented Apr. 7, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CONTAINER CLOSURE John M. King, Dover, N. .1.

Application September 30, 1935, Serial No. 42,866

' 2 Claims. (01.102-24) (Granted under the act of March 3, 1883, as amended April 30, 1928; 370 O. G. 757) The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes, without the payment to me of any royalty thereon.

This invention relates to a container closure for flares and bombs.

In flares and bombs that are equipped with parachutes it is customary in launching to Withdraw the closure and the parachute by means of a. hangwire connected to the aircraft. In the is attached to the parachute 6 and also to the 10 method heretofore employed in accomplishing the conventional disc 20. task the closure is retained by the hangwire and In operation when the container 5 is launched when blown around underneath the aircraft it from the aircraft the hangwire I6, which is athas frequently caused damage to the fabric of tached to the aircraft, is drawn taut and rethe aircraft. moves the closure from the container. The 15 The purpose of this invention is to provide an spring II, when no longe Confined y the arrangement wherein the closure is freed from tainer, moves clear of the stem as shown in Fig. 2 the hangwire as soon as it is removed from the and enables the closure to be relatively moved tocontainer. wards the container. When the parachute has To these and other ends, the invention consists been withdrawn from the container the weight 20 in the construction, arrangement and combinaof the container causes the tear-wire l8 to be tion of elements described hereinafter and pointbroken and the container and the closure fall ed out in the claims forming a part of this specto the ground. ification. I claim:

A practical embodiment of the invention is 1. A container adapted to be launched from 25 illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein: aircraft, a parachute normally housed in the con- Fig. 1 is a view partly in elevation and partly tainer and arranged when withdrawn to suspend longitudinal section of a flare constructed in the container, a closure for the container, a stem accordance with the invention. passing through the closure, a hangwire attached Fig. 2 is a view in elevation and partly in secto the outer end of the stem, a pull-out cord at- 30 tion showing the flare just after being launched. tached to the parachute and. having a frangible Fig. 3 is a plan view of the flare. connection with the inner end of the stem, and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the closure with parts a bowed spring carried by the closure and havbroken away to show the spring. ing a free end passing through the inner end of Referring to the drawing by characters of refthe stem, the bow of the spring confined by the 35 erence, there is shown a container 5 which repcontainer. resents a flare or bomb body that is adapted to 2. A container adapted. to be launched from be dropped from an aircraft in flight. The conaircraft, a parachute normally housed in the tainer is adapted to be suspended by a parachute container and arranged when withdrawn to sus- 6 which is normally housed within the container pend the container, a closure for the container, 40 and is arranged to be withdrawn therefrom after a stem passing through the closure, a hangwire the container is launched from the aircraft. attached to the outer end of the stem, a pull-out A closure 1 fitted in one end of the container cord attached to the parachute and having a is formed with an aperture 8 for a stem 9 which frangible connection with the inner end of the has a collar [0 engaging the outer face of the stem, and aspringlhaving an end passing through 45 closure. A spring H having one end fixed as at [2 to the'marginal portion of the inner face of the closure, has a free end I3 inserted in an aperture M in the stem 9 and held therein when the inner end of the stem and normally held in this position by the container until the closure is removed.

JOHN M. KING. 

